Our take
Newless than six months old and changing fast- Activity
- 70
- Community
- 13
- Issues
- 21
- Pull requests
- 85
+1 stars in the last 28 days
- Merges more pull requests than 99% of the projects we track
- Fewer contributors than 82% of the projects we track
RimZ is a broad, actively developed terminal control room for agent workflows, but its beta status and reliance on one primary contributor make it better suited to personal use and experimentation than to workflows requiring a stable interface.
Good fit if
- You already work in tmux or Zellij and want a single view of multiple coding agents.
- You want to coordinate agents with messages, worktrees, teams, or scheduled runs.
- You can accommodate a fast-moving beta and the Rust toolchain requirement.
Look elsewhere if
- Your workflow does not use tmux or Zellij, which RimZ requires as its room multiplexer.
- You need a stable production interface now. The project describes itself as beta and says its commands, flags, configuration, and output may change.
- You need a project with contributors broadly sharing maintenance responsibility. Recent activity is high, but most code contributions come from one person.
All health signals
| Last commit | 2026-10-25 (today) |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 90 days | 100+ |
| Releases, last 12 months | 5 (latest latest-main, 2026-07-21, pre-release) |
| Contributors | 3 (top contributor: 100% of commits) |
| Issues closed, last 90 days | 0+ |
| Pull requests merged, last 90 days | 100+ (typically merged in 0 days) |
| Project age | 3 months |
Checked on 2026-10-25 with the GitHub API.
Project history
Daily GitHub snapshots since Oct 7, 2026. History covers stars and forks; health signals are not tracked historically.
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33Forks
2Change since Nov 3, 2026: 0 stars·0 forks
Overview
RimZ is a realtime dashboard and control room for coding agents, built on tmux and Zellij. It brings agents running in their own terminal panes into one shared view, showing their state and surfacing when they need attention, so developers can oversee multiple sessions without switching between them manually.
The Rust CLI works inside existing tmux or Zellij sessions and leaves agent CLIs and their official apps intact. It is aimed at developers coordinating agent work locally or over SSH, from individual sessions to teams, scripted runs, and scheduled workflows.
Key Features
- Sidebar cards show agent state, task, context health, token usage, cost, and subagent relationships.
- Launch agents in layouts and isolated Git worktrees, or define teams with distinct roles.
- Send durable messages to agents, steer active turns, and review or answer blocking prompts.
- Run agents under supervision with exit codes and JSON output for scripts and CI.
- Schedule agent runs or wake them in response to signals, checks, and file or process events.
- Reconnect to rooms over SSH or access them through a browser.
- Set budgets for turns, agents, loops, rooms, or provider accounts.
Use Cases
- A developer running Claude Code and Codex side by side can monitor both from one terminal dashboard and focus on whichever is waiting.
- A team splitting a feature across planning, implementation, and review can launch role-based agents in a shared worktree.
- An engineer can run a supervised agent from CI or a script and use its result and exit code in the workflow.
- A developer maintaining a service can schedule checks that wake an agent to investigate failures, rather than polling manually.
What you need
Detected in the repository
- Rust 1.89 or newer (from Cargo.toml)
- Automated checks on GitHub Actions
License in plain words
MITpermissive
- Commercial use: yes
- Modify and redistribute: yes
- You must keep: the copyright and license notice
- Share your changes: no
A summary, not legal advice: the LICENSE file is what applies.
Getting Started
Install with the project script, then run RimZ from a directory in your project:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rimio-ai/rimz/main/scripts/install.sh | sh
cd ~/code/your-project
rimz
See the README for other installation methods, setup, and usage details.
Alternatives
- cli-agent-orchestrator: It launches agents in isolated tmux sessions for supervisor-led task delegation, rather than managing agents in existing tmux or Zellij sessions.
- tmux-agent-sidebar: It focuses on a sidebar for tracking and inspecting agents in tmux, rather than a broader control room supporting tmux and Zellij.
- coven: It provides a local runtime, durable session storage, and an API for coordinating agents, rather than a terminal-based control room.
| Project | Language | License | Stars | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rimz | Rust | MIT | 33 | New |
| cli-agent-orchestrator | Python | Apache-2.0 | 1.4k | Active |
| tmux-agent-sidebar | Rust | MIT | 553 | Active |
| coven | Rust | MIT | 73 | Active |
Considerations
- RimZ is beta software. Its interface is changing quickly, and the project recommends waiting for 1.0 if you need a stable production interface.
- The repository is new and has had very high recent activity, with changes concentrated among three contributors, overwhelmingly one person. This concentration may affect continuity and review capacity.
- Building from source requires Rust 1.89. RimZ also requires tmux or Zellij; the README describes additional dependencies for particular features, such as ttyd for browser access.
- Agent support is uneven. Claude Code and Codex are the stated daily drivers, Pi and OpenCode are alpha, and other listed integrations are experimental.
- On Linux, scoped isolation is a mount view, not containment. The README notes that the host filesystem remains writable and credentials remain readable.
- The project uses the MIT license. Review the license and your organization’s requirements before adopting it.
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